SONA 2010

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We are in crisis. As I watch the replay of the video of President Noynoy’s SONA, I realized we are in deeper jeopardy than I thought, not just in the economic aspect, but all aspects anyone can think when running and managing a country. In the early part of the SONA, he declared that government expenditure exceed our revenues. One case is the funding of calamities which happened a year or two ago. The money spent was supposed to be used during the present time. What if calamities would visit us now? What would we do then? Looking back, money used to fund them wasn’t entirely used for the benefit of the people. Instead, it went to the hands of corrupt politicians who aren’t worthy of the position and the trust of the people. Due to misuse of money and selfish politicians, the future would suffer. There are instances that they purchase more than what they need. An example of this is rice. And the result? Rice stored in the warehouse ended up rotting. The money wasted could have funded more important things and could lessen our debts. And to think there are millions of Filipinos who can’t eat rice at least once a day is just sad, not to mention that this even incremented our already huge debt. There have already been many proposals from local to foreign investors to provide for our various needs. If we can fix our food supply chain with the help of the private sector, instead of importing, we will hopefully be able to supply for the needs of the global market.

Most of President Noynoy Aquino’s SONA contains economic problems of the Philippines, how to solve and counter them. He told the public of the debts of the Philippines, which is the result of the inefficient use of resources, most specifically, money. This is due to the shameful previous administration, as he said, and I couldn’t agree more. As I grew older, I became more aware of the appalling way they handled the country. His SONA entails projects on how to help the Philippines rise from its almost deathbed and counter corruption. He has spoken of investigating more things, finding hidden problems, his strategies to solve them and how he needs us, the citizens, to cooperate in order to make change and not let history repeat again. Reading his SONA made me aware that we are deeply in economic crisis that I thought. I’ve had enough of my fair share of broken promises, disappointments and frustrations of the previous administration. It’s hard to trust, but I’m hoping this time, someone could change the Philippines and lead us to the straight path. I just hope that today’s administration would actually practice what they preach and stop giving us false hopes, because right now, aside from cooperating with them, all we can do is hope and trust them.

July 28th, 2010

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